Reply #24: I drove out of San Diego 23 years ago, and have not been back yet

[cryofan]

...but I would really like to.

I lived there on and off for 4 years while in the Navy.

Loved it! The weather was fantastic. I lived more than a year in an apartment near University Blvd (Dr?) north of the causeway. THat place had no AC or Heating....but it did not need it! San Diego is pretty close to room temp the vast majority of the year.

I also lived in a multistory story Navy dorm on Point Loma. Beautiful location.

I had such great times in San Diego. Chasing girls; making midnight runs to Tijuana; getting drunk at Black Canyon; smoking weed in Balboa Park, tripping on shrooms on the piers off 32nd St based; tripping on acid out in the mountains around Alpine; snorkeling off La Jolla; climbing down the cliffs to Black's Beach (that was a nude beach in those days; my fat Navy buddy was swimming there and got carried by the tide a long ways towards La Jolla; he had to walk back down the beach in the nude, and was lambasted soundly by the fully dressed people down there).

I sure wish I had bought some real estate in the area east of downtown back in the 70s; that area was basically a slum back then. These days it is extremely pricey.

Sometimes I feel like just getting in the car and driving back to San Diego, back through the Mojave, over the mountains, seeing it as you drive down into that brown air, cruising down Rosencrans all the way to the point.....